sandgroper

Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An inhabitant of Western Australia.

n. Any species of the family Cylindrachetidae of subterranean insects, found in Australia, New Guinea and Argentina.

Etymologies

From sand + groper. The sense “Western Australian” may originate either as a reference to the relatively large proportion of desert in the state or to gold mining during the rushes of the 19th Century. (Wiktionary)

Examples

Dr Yobbo, should have stayed with Triple M! over here in sandgroper land we had 96 ‘top aussie’ songs.

By virty, November 20, 2009 @ 10:22 pm if your into surfin’ necronauts and drugged out hippies, tim wintons “breath” is a fair read even for a fkn sandgroper. he’s even discovered my top secret breaks outta margaret river and those killer lefts on the eyre peninsular. hasn’t done the rock/coral shelf rights and lefts off of the old albany whaling station salmon holes tho’.